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To: dr_lew

Ack. You bring back horrid memories of Statistics class.

Thanks for the numbers, anyway.

I’m sure you will agree that 7 cases is too small a sample to decide whether the US flu is actually less deadly.


56 posted on 04/25/2009 8:50:55 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan
I’m sure you will agree that 7 cases is too small a sample to decide whether the US flu is actually less deadly.

Yes, but so is 14, since you would still have a 36% "probability of rejecting the null hypothesis", as the formula has it.

That is, if you were presented with 14 cases of a disease, and decided that your criterion for determining that the mortality was less than 7% was "no deaths". Then you would say this about an actual 7% mortality disease 36% of the time.

57 posted on 04/25/2009 9:04:40 PM PDT by dr_lew
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